Ben Jonson Quotes

1572 - 1637

English dramatist. Imprisoned for
killing a man in a duel, he became a Catholic but
later recanted. His plays reject romantic comedy for a more realistic
mode and include Volpone (1606), The Silent Woman
(1609) and The Alchemist (1610). He was regarded as superior to
Shakespeare in his day.

Ben Jonson Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This epitaph is generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. It appears in the editions of his Works; but in a manuscript collection of Browne's poems preserved amongst the Lansdowne MS. No. 777, in the British Museum, it is ascribed to Browne, and awarded to him by Sir Egerton Brydges in his edition of Browne's poems.